[Intro, soft, smoky, intimate] Look at me, love... Go on. That’s what you all do best. [Verse 1, intimate, restrained, emotional] I learned young what a face can buy, A slower hand, a sweeter lie, A warmer room, a softer chair, A little mercy dressed as care. From the gutter black to candle gold, I wore what they were dying to be told, Smile just so and lower your eyes, Men will hand you half their lives. [Pre-Chorus, low, bitter, building] They call it beauty, call it grace, Call it fortune in a pretty face, But I know hunger when it breathes on skin, And greed when it thinks it’s getting in. [Chorus, powerful, emotional, dramatic] Price of my body Paid in looks, in smoke, in borrowed light, Price of my body Every hungry hand thinks it has the right, They look at my mouth, never hear my mind, Want the shape, not the soul they leave behind. Price of my body I learned the cost before I knew desire, Sold my smile just to stay above the fire, And now I’m the fool, the beautiful fraud, Falling for something I never thought I’d want. [Verse 2, sharper, confident, darkly playful] You’d be amazed what men confess When all they see is silk and flesh, They talk too much when they feel tall, And never think a doll clocks all. I read their eyes before they speak, Know which are cruel and which are weak, Know when they’re lonely, know when they’re vain, Know how to smile and tighten the chain. [Pre-Chorus, rising, wounded, intense] I know the game, I know the frame, How lust makes idiots of the same old names, But no one warns you, none of them do, How love can make the liar the fool too. [Chorus, powerful, emotional, dramatic] Price of my body Paid in looks, in smoke, in borrowed light, Price of my body Every hungry hand thinks it has the right, They look at my mouth, never hear my mind, Want the shape, not the soul they leave behind. Price of my body I learned the cost before I knew desire, Sold my smile just to stay above the fire, And now I’m the fool, the beautiful fraud, Falling for something I never thought I’d want. [Bridge, soft, trembling, confessional] Then he looked at me As if I were someone to keep Not a room, not a debt Not a trick done cheap And I hated that God, I hated it The way kindness cuts When you’ve learned to counterfeit [Breakdown, low, emotional, half-whispered] I know how to turn a room to mine, Know how to blur the truth with wine, Know how to leave before they do, Know every move but telling the truth. And still... There I was, heart first, blind, Like some daft girl with stars in her mind, After all that smoke, all that art, Undone by a man who asked for my heart. [Final Chorus, huge, powerful, emotional] Price of my body Paid in blood, in silk, in city rain, Price of my body Every hand I dodged still left a stain, They wanted my skin, never asked my name, Till love came close and set the whole world strange. Price of my body I was clever till I let him see me raw, All that poise, all that polish, all that war, And now I’m the fool, but at least it’s true, If I lose myself, let it not be to them — let it be to you. [Outro, soft, aching, fading] Look at me now, love... Still here. Still mine. I think.
